Full Tilt Poker will attempt to stamp its name on the Guinness Records and to do so; the site has announced that it will try to set a new record for the Largest Online Poker Tournament. Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament was unveiled as the finale to FIVE, a week of events and promotions created exclusively to celebrate the site’s 5^th anniversary. The tournament will take place on July 19th at 15:05ET, players can buy in for this event for only $5 or 1000 Full Tilt Points and compete for a share of a $250,000 guaranteed with $250,000 added prize pool. Players can also get entries to this event by playing the online satellites available on the site and starting for as little as 30 cents or 50 Full Tilt Points.

Team Full Tilt pros and WSOP bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey have already confirmed they will take part in the event, offering players the chance to sit down at this historic tournament and play with some of the best high stakes and tournament pros in the world.

“By extending the limits of what is possible in online poker tournaments, Full Tilt Poker will allow players to compete for a big payout without the big buy-in,” said Team Full Tilt member Howard Lederer.

Putting together a poker tournament of this magnitude would be nearly impossible for any brick and mortar casino or poker room. The current record for the largest “live” poker tournament was set at the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,772 players. To break the current Guinness Record set by PokeStars.com in December, 2008, Full Tilt Poker will need to attract over 35.000 players. If successful, this tournament will establish Full Tilt Poker as World Record holder and cement its reputation as a world leader in online poker industry.

For more information on Full Tilt’s Record Breaker tournament, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-record-breaker.

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FullTilt has just opened a new info site covering all the facts of the “Durrrr Challenge”, an amazing online heads up tournament involving some of the best big money online players competing against the Heads Up Specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The brand new website section presents internet poker players and fanatics the chance to monitor this incredible durrrr challenge and check out frequent challenge details. With this innovative “durrrr Challenge” section players can follow all the poker action and check out each hand played during durrrr Challenge, and get lots of statistics, including how many hands were played, session time, cash won, average won during each hand and lots more.

About six months ago, the twenty-three year old online poker star issued a heads-up challenge for any poker player with the cash, time and ability to accept it. Any poker pro entering the poker challenge has to put up $500,000 against Dwan’s $1.5 million. Dwan’s challenge states that at least 50,000 poker hands need to be played at the same time at 4 or more poker tables of no-limit Hold’em or pot-limit Omaha. At the end of the heads up challenge, the poker player who has more cash will earn the pool. Basically if you enter the durrrr challenge and win $1 after the 50,000 poker hands, then you will win durrrr’s $1.5 Million, but if he wins by $1 then he will win your $500,000.

To date, a number of poker pros have accepted to play the “durrrr challenge”, including seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, though, only Patrick Antonius has accepted the Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Until now, both players have taken part in a total of 20,647 poker hands out of 50,000, with durrrr up by $726,546 total.

If you would like to see more details on the durrrr poker challenge and Tom durrrr Dwan vs. Patrick Antonius, please check out http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/durrrr-vs-antonius

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Leading poker site FullTilt.com is upping the ante on the news from 2009 World Series of Poker with their WSOP Coverage Page, a new site dedicated to provide customers on everything related to the World Series of Poker 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, timely updates, poker players’ blogs and more.

Full Tilt’s new WSOP Coverage Page is not the run of the mill news section provided by hundreds of other sites. The website is divided into three areas, and includes a daily highlights section in where players can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the Full Tilt poker experts Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the run of the mill daily updates and results on each and every poker event, FullTiltPoker.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also highlights two poker player blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which features commentary, wsop news, inside info from Full Tilt Poker star players, comments from FullTilt.com’s viewers and authors and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights posts from members of Team Full Tilt playing in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, FullTilt.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter area that supplies immediate updates and commentary from several poker professionals. Some of the players that participate in the Twitter section include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter section lets players to create short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These messages known as “tweets”, can be sent from any place in the world through a mobile phone or other portable device.

To see more information on  FullTiltPoker.com’s new World Series of Poker Coverage Page please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/series-coverage.

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Open to ALL WDIAV Forum Members

This is your LAST BEST CHANCE to win one of SIX $1,500 2009 World Series of Poker event tickets in Las Vegas!

May 17th, 9 pm EST - Put it on your calendar! $500 Freeroll PLUS a chance to win a ticket to our WSOP Step 4 final where we are giving away 6 WSOP seats. Top 18 placers in the event will win a Step 4 ticket.

Terms and conditions:

1. You MUST be a registered WDIAV Forum member. This Freeroll will be by pre-registration ONLY. No password.

2. You MUST have a minimum of 50 valid (i.e. non-spam or redundant) posts to the forum threads.

3. You must have a minimum of 50 forum points available to enter. You can still earn points under the CURRENT point system (more about that below) by making posts to the forum and by posting your avatar. When you enter this final freeroll tournament, you will be redeeming ALL of your current forum points for this last chance to win.

4. All Step 4 Tickets are transferable to another forum member or WDIAV Player. Anyone found selling tickets will be immediately disqualified and their forum account will be cancelled. All tickets have no cash value.

5. WSOP seat(s) are non-transferable and have no cash value. You must be present at the RIO with your Harrah’s players card to obtain your WSOP seat.

6. You MUST be 21 years old at the time you present your ticket in Las Vegas for your $1,500 event #7 seat. This event will be played on June 2nd, 2009 at 12 noon.

7. Winners are responsible for any and all taxes, travel, expenses and any other costs incurred in this promotion. Winners of WSOP seats agree to wear the shirt and hat of our choice while playing in the event. Winners agree to hold WDIAV harmless for any occurrence as a result of this promotion. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

8. The final date to earn forum points and to make 50 posts to the forum is May 15th, 2009. After that date, forum members who try to enter this tournament by completing their posts and points will not be allowed to play in this tournament!

If you haven’t had time to earn points and post into the forum or you’re a new forum member, here’s your chance to get into a really GREAT DEAL! Get your points and posts into the WDIAV forum by NO LATER than May 12th, 2009.

ANNOUNCEMENT - WDIAV POINTS WILL BE CHANGING

We’ve been working hard to try to create a point system that rewards forum members who contribute to our forum and who make it a fun and interesting place to visit. The DAY AFTER this special tournament, we will be announcing our new forum point system. At that time, all old WDIAV points will be come invalid.

Some of the new features:

* Automatic point calculation

* Automatic point redemption for passwords to tournaments

* Point rewards for all parts of the forum - threads, posts, photos, videos, referrals, blogs, comments, adding events to the calendar and much more.

* Redeem points for cash and gift certificates

Once again, we want to say thanks to all our members who have made our forum the success it is. Now we want to take it to the next step in enjoyment.

Regards, WDIAV Team

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One of the most loathed opponents at the no limit Texas Hold’em poker table most every time will constantly be the attention-seeker. You recognize the person I’m telling you about. He’s the player that finds a place at the Texas Hold’em table and makes evident you’re aware that he wants all of your no limit Texas Hold’em poker chips; exiting the no-limit Texas Hold’em table with the very same attitude that he arrived with. Even if the guy gets killed, he has the thought that he is the finest Texas Hold’em player hands down.

Though the majority of Texas Hold’em Poker players would prefer to keep away from opponents of this type, there exist other poker players who could say that show-boating may have its positive side. So, the question on everyone’s mind is: Is there honestly a clever no limit Texas Hold’em poker bragger or devious poker bragger? Boasting about how proficient you are in Texas Hold’em is essentially just like affirming: “I am the best no-limit Texas Hold’em player on earth, don’t forget to be on the ball while you’re sitting in a Texas Hold’em game against me!” Most certainly that is the nastiest vibe to give off playing Texas Hold’em Poker. Furthermore, giving away too much information about your Texas Hold’em Poker playing manner can be quite harmful to your no limit Texas Hold’em poker game. You most certainly do not want these individuals to know how you bet on specified Texas Hold’em Poker hands.

Moreover there are those Texas Hold’em players who might use showing-off as a sort of Texas Hold’em Poker technique, or bluff. Show-boating when you are dealt a specific poker hand may fool your opponents and puzzle them about your no-limit Texas Hold’em playing approach. There are a few people who may deem this plan somewhat unethical, but it is important to not forget that there are not too many rules against it in Texas Hold’em. No limit Texas Hold’em poker is all about working with what you got and utilizing it to the end.

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